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2000s: A teenage girl has gone missing from Forest Hills, Queens…
2000s: A teenage girl has gone missing from Forest Hills, Queens…
FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing people. She knows how it feels to be lost…
Though her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York City, Elsa cannot refuse a call for help. A teenage girl has gone missing from Forest Hills, Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series of false leads hides the fact that she did not go willingly.
With each passing hour, as the hunt for Ruby deepens into a search for a man who may have been killing for years, the case starts to get underneath Elsa’s skin. Everything she has buried – her fraught relationship with her sister and niece, her self-destructive past, her mother’s death – threatens to resurface, with devastating consequences.
In order to save the missing girl, she may have to lose herself…and return to the darkness she’s been hiding from for years.
A crime in parts of the city not much explored in fiction.This takes you out of Manhattan and into the suburbs. The dark and mysterious suburbs if this book is to be believed.
Two main areas to explore – Forest Hills and Ozone Park
The crime scene and focus for the investigation. Th boyfriend lives in Forest Hills Gardens and this is a cosy network of genteel blocks with stucco and brick Tudor fronted by manicured lawns
Its’ fifteen minutes from Forest Hills to Ozone Park and the house where Elsa grew up. The Whitelaw street clapboard with its gambrel roof and arched entrance is in need of fresh paint and the bushes separating it from the side walk have grown spiky and full.”How quickly an empty house returns to the wild Elsa thinks”
Destination: New York City Author/Guide: Karen Ellis Departure Time: 2000s
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